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This photo taken Jan. 17, 2014 released by Miller ChildrenÃ¢ÂÂs Hospital Long Beach, shows April and Brad Dooley holding their newly born identical triplets, from left to right, Patrick, Owen and Liam at the Long Beach Memorial, Miller ChildrenÃ¢ÂÂs Hospital in Long Beach, Calif. Dooley's three sons were born in roughly 4-minute intervals on Jan.13, 2014 at a combined weight of 14 pounds, 9 ounces. With infertility treatments and other assisted reproductive technologies, the number of multiple births has grown greatly since the 1980s.
However, the occurrence of naturally conceived identical triplets is extremely rare. Identical siblings are produced when an egg is divided in utero. Fraternal siblings and those from artificial treatments come from different eggs. The Dooleys didn't use fertility treatments.
(AP Photo/ Miller ChildrenÃ¢ÂÂs Hospital Long Beach)